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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge. -- Adlai Stevenson I
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -- Plato
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. -- Thomas Arnold
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. -- Leland Ryken
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. -- Felix Adler
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. -- Origen
While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge -- John Ruskin
You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available! -- Israelmore Ayivor
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data. -- James Clerk Maxwell

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